Word: circumventions
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Having built his business by catering to the needs of renegade regimes like Chile's and Iraq's, Cardoen has no qualms about dealing with other pariahs. He has helped South African arms companies circumvent a global embargo by putting MADE IN CHILE labels on some of their weapons as...
I see we are dying in many of those places. Young people are growing up in homes where family life is unknown. For me, in South Africa, family was the citadel, the center that kept me alive. Also, what does this society hold up for its young people as the...
In response, Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu and his colleagues in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party rushed to soothe the country's concern. Ignoring catcalls and jeers from the opposition benches, Kaifu explained that the bill was merely a device by which Japan could "cooperate with the peace-promotion activities sanctioned...
Collor has run into other problems. The Central Union of Workers, representing many government employees, has threatened work stoppages to block the privatization of state-owned industries. A plan to furlough bureaucrats has stumbled on a provision of the 1988 constitution that grants lifetime employment guarantees to all civil servants...
But even a minister known for his bulldozer tactics has been unable to overcome the political infighting and finger pointing that have bogged down attempts to find a solution. Last week Sharon was rebuffed by Israel's Supreme Court, which ruled against his plan to circumvent the parliament. And he...